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Jul
19
Sun
A Standing Still @ Pickford Film Center
Jul 19 @ 6:30 pm
A Standing Still @ Pickford Film Center | Bellingham | Washington | United States

“A Standing Still,” an award-winning feature film by Bellingham native and WWU Grad, Scott Ballard was shot partially in Bellingham.

“A Standing Still” revolves around a young recluse, Allison (Sara Robbin) who struggles with the future in the midst of loss and displacement. When a family emergency calls her away from her job as a fire lookout in the Willamette National Forest early, she is forced to face her present and the past that has led her there.

Director in attendance.

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Aug
11
Tue
Bellingham Film Mixer @ Pickford Film Center
Aug 11 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Bellingham Film Mixer @ Pickford Film Center | Bellingham | Washington | United States

Mix and Mingle with film professionals and aspiring filmmakers and actors.

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Jan
5
Tue
Film: ‘The Russian Woodpecker’ @ Pickford Film Center
Jan 5 @ 6:30 pm
Film: 'The Russian Woodpecker' @ Pickford Film Center | Bellingham | Washington | United States

Fedor Alexandrovich is a radioactive man. He was four years old in 1986, when he was exposed to the toxic effects of the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown and forced to leave his home. Now 33, he is an artist in Ukraine, with radioactive strontium in his bones and a singular obsession with Chernobyl, and with the giant, mysterious steel pyramid now rotting away 2 miles from the disaster site: a hulking Cold War weapon known as the Duga and nicknamed the “Russian Woodpecker” for the constant clicking radio frequencies that it emits. In Gracia’s documentary/conspiracy thriller, Alexandrovich returns to the ghost towns in the radioactive Exclusion Zone to try to find answers – and to decide whether to risk his life by revealing them, amid growing clouds of Ukraine’s emerging revolution and war.

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Jan
10
Sun
Film Series: Dances for the Camera @ Pickford Film Center
Jan 10 @ 2:30 pm
Film Series: Dances for the Camera @ Pickford Film Center | Bellingham | Washington | United States

Featuring the premiere of Ellis won’t be Dancing Today, a dance/theatre piece about one woman’s story of her husband and Alzheimer’s disease. Ellis won’t be Dancing Today was originally created as a live performance piece by Kuntz and Company for the Palliative Care Summer Institute in July 2014. Pam Kuntz of Kuntz and Company and Juliette Machado of JmWorks have adapted the piece into a short film starring Jim Lortz and Marilyn Flint. The piece is about Marilyn’s experiences with her husband Ellis at the end of his life with Alzheimer’s. It will premiere at the Pickford Film Center on January 10th. “Dances for the Camera” will also highlight other locally-produced works including Kuntz and Company’s Parkinson’s Dreams About Me and the dance film, Pacing, which features members of Bellingham Repertory Dance.

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Jan
12
Tue
Masters of Japanese Cinema: ‘Twenty-Four Eyes’ @ Pickford Film Center
Jan 12 @ 6:30 pm
Masters of Japanese Cinema: 'Twenty-Four Eyes' @ Pickford Film Center | Bellingham | Washington | United States

Introduced by Jeff Purdue Twenty-Four Eyes is easily one of the most beloved films in Japan. Takamine Hideko stars as a new teacher assigned in 1928 to a remote town on Shodo Island in the Inland Sea, where she has a class of 12 first-year students (the twenty-four eyes of the title). The film follows their lives through the rise of militarism in the 1930s and the war to the years following defeat. Kinoshita was never a director to stint on emotion in his films, but partly thanks to a controlled and nuanced performance by Takamine, this film rises above sentimentality to become something enduring. Special note must be made of the role of children’s songs in this film, which is simply magical.

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Jan
13
Wed
Royal Opera House: Cavalleria Rusticana/ Pagliacci @ Limelight Cinema
Jan 13 @ 6:00 pm
Royal Opera House: Cavalleria Rusticana/ Pagliacci @ Limelight Cinema | Bellingham | Washington | United States

Presented by Mount Bakery with complimentary delicious treats served at the Sunday Matinees. These two short Italian operas are each regarded as the composers’ masterpiece, and are brought together in a new staging by award-winning director Damiano Michieletto, who sets both operas in a poverty stricken village in 1980s southern Italy, where the Mafia has a hold. The Royal Opera’s Music Director Antonio Pappano conducts a cast that includes charismatic Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek, exciting Italian soprano Carmen Giannattasio and the thrilling Latvian tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko.

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Jan
16
Sat
Rocket Sci-Fi Matinee: ‘The Thing From Another World’ @ Pickford Film Center
Jan 16 @ 12:00 pm
Rocket Sci-Fi Matinee: 'The Thing From Another World' @ Pickford Film Center | Bellingham | Washington | United States

Scientists at an Arctic research station discover a spacecraft buried in the ice. Upon closer examination, they discover the frozen pilot. All hell breaks loose when they take him back to their station and he is accidentally thawed out!

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Jan
24
Sun
Bolshoi Ballet: ‘The Lady Of The Camellias’ @ Pickford Film Center
Jan 24 @ 11:00 am
Bolshoi Ballet: 'The Lady Of The Camellias' @ Pickford Film Center | Bellingham | Washington | United States

A young bourgeois, Armand Duval, falls madly in love with Marguerite Gautier, a gorgeous courtesan celebrated by the Parisian high society. Despite her infidelity, Armand will do all he can to win the beautiful woman’s heart and convince her to leave her indulgent life. The Bolshoi breathes new life into John Neumeier’s tragic masterpiece, inspired by Alexandre Dumas’ novel and accompanied by Chopin’s exquisite score. This production assumes a new emotional and dramatic texture that only the Bolshoi’s dancers can deliver. “Neumeier’s character-rich ballet has found a company that is equal to its challenges” – Financial Times.

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Feb
9
Tue
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (Indie Lens Pop-Up) @ Pickford Film Center
Feb 9 @ 5:30 pm – 7:45 pm
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (Indie Lens Pop-Up) @ Pickford Film Center | Bellingham | Washington | United States

Here, we trace the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, one of the 20th century’s most alluring and controversial organizations that captivated the world’s attention for nearly 50 years. With a discussion in the cinema with Susie Purves, PFC Executive Director.

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Feb
14
Sun
Rhapsody/The Two Pigeons (Royal Opera House Ballet) @ Limelight Cinema
Feb 14 @ 11:00 am – 2:15 pm
Rhapsody/The Two Pigeons (Royal Opera House Ballet) @ Limelight Cinema | Bellingham | Washington | United States

Presented by Mount Bakery with complimentary delicious treats served at the Sunday Matinees. This delightful Frederick Ashton double bill opens with his setting of Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, using the music’s dark turbulence and brilliance to inspire some of his most thrilling choreography. Witty, impassioned and sublime this ballet was the pinnacle of Ashton’s romantic style. The second half of the programme features Ashton’s delicate, deceptively comic The Two Pigeons — a work rarely performed and a real treat for ballet fans everywhere.

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Oct
22
Sat
Bleedingham Film Festival @ Pickford Film Center
Oct 22 @ 9:00 pm – 11:59 pm
Bleedingham Film Festival @ Pickford Film Center | Bellingham | Washington | United States

Bleedingham Film Festival is an annual horror short film festival that showcases independent WA state filmmakers at the Pickford Film Center in Bellingham. Films are judged and scored by industry professionals and the filmmakers compete for awards in several categories and for a grand prize. Opening night on October 22nd will include the award ceremony for filmmakers and there are audience prizes to win as well! The second showing will be on October 30th, at 7:15pm at the Pickford, there is no award ceremony, but there are still audience prizes to win!

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Oct
30
Sun
Bleedingham Film Festival @ Pickford Film Center
Oct 30 @ 7:15 pm – 9:15 pm
Bleedingham Film Festival @ Pickford Film Center | Bellingham | Washington | United States

Bleedingham Film Festival is an annual horror short film festival that showcases independent WA state filmmakers at the Pickford Film Center in Bellingham. Films are judged and scored by industry professionals and the filmmakers compete for awards in several categories and for a grand prize. Opening night on October 22nd will include the award ceremony for filmmakers and there are audience prizes to win as well! The second showing will be on October 30th, at 7:15pm at the Pickford, there is no award ceremony, but there are still audience prizes to win!

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